Blog/2026-01-15/Modeling Without Claude
My wife, Julie, and I both use our Bambu P1S for stuff around the house. Today she was telling me about a particular project she was working on: a set of wall-mounted blocks to attach the baby fence to.
The fence we have is one of those unremarkable Amazon products from China from a brand that is a large number of consonants in a row but it's meant to close in to form a pen. And that is what we originally did with it. But Astra has grown to resent this prison, and so over time we expanded the area she can reach until now we just block off sections of the main floor rather than pen her in.
We mostly just place the sections of the pen against surfaces and she doesn't have the ability to push past them so this functions. What Julie wants to do is turn this pen into sections of a fence. Because we're around in various parts of the house at various times of the day, we'd like to extend or shrink the space our daughter can play in. So what Julie wanted to build is a series of small wall-mounted structures that slot into a block that connects to the fence structure.
What I find amusing about this is that both she and I have wanted to build things recently, and we both reached for tools that were familiar to us. I used Claude and she, being a graphic designer and much less lazy than me, went and got Blender and learned how to use it.
She got the clipping mount from the Internet, sized the block and subtracted out the spot for the little spring-loaded gizmo and a few trials later we have this block that should let us re-arrange our walls at will.
